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And E-350 with 2x1.6GHz bobcat cores for 16 minutes... something went wrong there is it Michael .

Well, whatever the system is doing, it's completely reproducible... Each kernel build happened three times, all using standard config, etc. You can see the SE on the bars that in fact each time it was done it was doing the same.

So many low cost options now it's hard to decide. I was looking at the Minnowboard Max but now I don't know. I'm guessing if your program can leverage OpenCL then it would perform better on the AMD APU than an Intel chip.

Well, whatever the system is doing, it's completely reproducible... Each kernel build happened three times, all using standard config, etc. You can see the SE on the bars that in fact each time it was done it was doing the same.

OK but those are unexpected results , it must be 3 times faster then e-350... i compare right now with result form anandtech for example x264. Here it is only 50% faster. but it is expected to be 300% faster .

Why would anyone buy this junk? Crap performance and it needs a big heatsink and fan.

For the price point, you can't really complain. I feel like this would make a decent library computer or even a HTPC. I'm sure the heatsink they used is overkill, but they used it because it's likely cheaper than designing and manufacturing a new model. At least the fan should always run at its slowest speed, even when the APU is under full load. That being said, I'm sure this will be nearly silent.

I would pull that article, or at least update it to make VERY clear mention that something in the tests went horribly wrong. As others have shown, those CPU results are nowhere near what they should be.